Originally Posted by
JandM
You have six months to send in the Migrant Levy and your passports, to have the visa stickers put in. Then, from the date on the visas, you have 12 months more before you MUST arrive in NZ and activate the visas by presenting them to Immigration at the airport. If you miss that 'use by' date, the visa lapses and it would all be for nothing, so if you are going to be travelling nearly at the end of your allowable time, build in an extra week or two to allow for travel delays, as no excuses are accepted.